| What
do you like about Greater Bakersfield?
What are our Strengths? |
|
| Affordable
housing |
10 |
| Small
town flavor |
8 |
| Year
round recreation |
7 |
| Centrally
located to beaches, Las Vegas, L.A. |
7 |
| College
education without leaving the area |
7 |
| Good
place to raise a family |
7 |
| Community
involvement |
5 |
| Good
legislators |
5 |
| Friendly
town |
4 |
| Opportunities
to volunteer |
4 |
| Food
basket-agriculture |
4 |
| Weather |
3 |
| Kern
River |
3 |
| Great
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce |
2 |
| Renovated
downtown |
2 |
| Traffic
not too congested |
2 |
| Law
enforcement |
2 |
| Centennial
Garden |
2 |
| Good
community collaboratives |
2 |
| Community
parks |
1 |
| Mesa
Marin and Bakersfield Speedway |
|
|
|
| What
are Greater Bakersfield's key weaknesses?
What don't you like? |
|
| Lack
of culturally diversified leadership |
10 |
| Air
quality |
9 |
| Bad
image as "hick" town |
9 |
| Hopscotch
development/unchecked urban sprawl |
8 |
| High
welfare rate |
7 |
| Large
developers dictating the growth of the city |
6 |
| Overcrowded
emergency rooms |
6 |
| shortage
of quality jobs/skilled/highpaying |
5 |
| Underperforming
schools |
5 |
| Blight
on Union Avenue & Baker Ste. |
5 |
| Poorly
planned roads |
4 |
| Unattractive
gateways to city- North & South |
4 |
| Lack
of afterschool programs in every community |
4 |
| Lack
of interaction: law enforcement & community |
4 |
| Need
new airport |
3 |
| Lack
of crime prevention |
3 |
| Teenage
pregnancy |
3 |
| Too
many prisons |
3 |
| Dumping
ground for other people's waste |
3 |
| Dependence
on unstable oil industry |
3 |
| Absentee
landlords |
2 |
| Conservative
thinking |
2 |
| Major
freeways dissecting city |
1 |
| Public
transportation |
1 |
| Lack
of childcare |
1 |
| Lack
of entertainment |
1 |
| Poor
interaction between law enforcement agencies |
1 |
